“You had the whole court,” she said to no one in particular after she hit a ball into the net on a drop shot attempt during the first set of her 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over American Madison Brengle Wednesday in the second round of The Oaks Club $50,000 Women's Pro Circuit Event.

“Be aggressive, Sharon,” she piped up in the second set when she and Brengle were tied at 3 games a piece and her ball placement seemed to be failing her a little bit.

It might seem odd to some, but to each her own, says Fichman, who has used the self pep talks to pump herself up during matches.

It certainly bothered Brengle, who kept muttering how annoying Fichman was being.

“Sometimes I don't realize that I'm doing it,” said Fichman, the 126th ranked player in the world who won the Oaks Club tournament in 2009.

“I guess I'm just pretty competitive and I'm the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I'm sorry that it bothered her.”

Throughout the years, much has been said about noises made by professional female tennis players, Maria Sharapova in particular.

She grunts quite loudly during serves, returns and when she wins big points, as does Serena Williams and Sara Errani, whose grunts were categorized by Business Insider as sounding like something from the “street fighter” video game.

Fichman makes noises, too. She sounds like she's saying “ah-guy” whenever she serves or returns a serve and yelps when she wins a big point.

She beat Brengle by mixing it up in the second set, placing the ball well, particularly on drop shots, and battling back in a third set that had some solid rallies and good baseline work by Bengle.

“Usually I try to mix it up but she was playing really well, hitting the ball really well,” said Fichman, whose legs started to cramp up late in the third.

Puchkova is one of only four of the eight top seeds who remain in the tournament. Lucie Hradecka, the top seed who is ranked No. 54 in the world, retired in the third set of her match Wednesday against Columbia's Catalina Castano because of an undisclosed injury.

Andrea Hlavackova, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, beat American Chiara Scholl, 6-2, 6-0, to advance and France's Pauline Parmentier, the sixth seed, was a 6-2, 6-1 winner of Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva.

<p><em>OSPREY</em> - If you watch the petite Canadian Sharon Fichman play tennis, you would think there's someone on the court next to her during moments when she's not doing so well. </p><p>“You had the whole court,” she said to no one in particular after she hit a ball into the net on a drop shot attempt during the first set of her 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 win over American Madison Brengle Wednesday in the second round of The Oaks Club $50,000 Women's Pro Circuit Event.</p><p>“Be aggressive, Sharon,” she piped up in the second set when she and Brengle were tied at 3 games a piece and her ball placement seemed to be failing her a little bit. </p><p>It might seem odd to some, but to each her own, says Fichman, who has used the self pep talks to pump herself up during matches. </p><p>It certainly bothered Brengle, who kept muttering how annoying Fichman was being. </p><p>“Sometimes I don't realize that I'm doing it,” said Fichman, the 126th ranked player in the world who won the Oaks Club tournament in 2009. </p><p>“I guess I'm just pretty competitive and I'm the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I'm sorry that it bothered her.” </p><p>Throughout the years, much has been said about noises made by professional female tennis players, Maria Sharapova in particular. </p><p>She grunts quite loudly during serves, returns and when she wins big points, as does Serena Williams and Sara Errani, whose grunts were categorized by Business Insider as sounding like something from the “street fighter” video game.</p><p>Fichman makes noises, too. She sounds like she's saying “ah-guy” whenever she serves or returns a serve and yelps when she wins a big point. </p><p>She beat Brengle by mixing it up in the second set, placing the ball well, particularly on drop shots, and battling back in a third set that had some solid rallies and good baseline work by Bengle.</p><p>“Usually I try to mix it up but she was playing really well, hitting the ball really well,” said Fichman, whose legs started to cramp up late in the third. </p><p>“I just fought hard.”</p><p>Fichman will play Russia's Olga Puchkova in the quarterfinals today around noon. Puchkova, the fifth seed in the tournament, beat Kazakhstan's Sesil Karatantcheva, 7-6 (7), 6-2, Wednesday. </p><p>Puchkova is one of only four of the eight top seeds who remain in the tournament. Lucie Hradecka, the top seed who is ranked No. 54 in the world, retired in the third set of her match Wednesday against Columbia's Catalina Castano because of an undisclosed injury.</p><p>Andrea Hlavackova, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, beat American Chiara Scholl, 6-2, 6-0, to advance and France's Pauline Parmentier, the sixth seed, was a 6-2, 6-1 winner of Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva. </p><p>No. 4 Arantxa Rus, the defending champion, was edged out by Columbian Mariana Duque-Marino, 6-1, 6-0, and No. 8 Melanie Oudin, an American, lost to Spain's Estrella Cabeza-Candela, 6-0, 6-4. </p><p>American Jill Craybas, Russian Marta Sirotkina and Slovakia's Jana Cepelova also advanced to the quarterfinals.</p>